BattleCON: War of Indines

A card-based duel that borrows its rhythm from 2D fighting games. Each player chooses one of 18 characters, a fire elemental, an ocean guardian with her panda familiar, a space-bending trapper, a shadowy assassin and more, and each one plays differently thanks to a unique mechanism. You move along a seven-space board, trading blows and trying to strike your opponent. Both players pick their attacks at the same time and then reveal them, so the game is half reading your opponent's habits and half rock-paper-scissors. A standalone 2012 game: jumping to a new character is simple, getting good with one takes practice. Two players, around an hour.